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Buying electronics will I have to pay VAT?

  • 18-11-2013 8:41am
    #1
    brianorb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 93 ✭✭


    I'm buying some electronics from Amazon; cost around €260; delivered to my home address in Ireland. It's from Amazon, not a substore. Will I have to pay VAT on same? I notice its dispatched from "Dispatched by Amazon EU Sàrl".

    Thanks


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  • #2
    jahalpin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,031 ✭✭✭jahalpin


    You will have to pay VAT on purchases of vatable items on Amazon

    The price quoted on the .co.uk includes UK VAT, so the price will go up slightly due to the 3% diff in the VAT rates between UK and ROI


  • #3
    mackerski
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,286 ✭✭✭mackerski


    brianorb wrote: »
    I'm buying some electronics from Amazon; cost around €260; delivered to my home address in Ireland. It's from Amazon, not a substore. Will I have to pay VAT on same? I notice its dispatched from "Dispatched by Amazon EU Sàrl".

    Thanks

    So an EU Amazon site, not the US one? If so, no extra VAT, that's what the single market is about.

    Edit: but yes, jahalpin is right that the rate may adjust once you enter your address.


  • #4
    brianorb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 93 ✭✭brianorb


    Thanks for the quick replies; just to be clear it's from amazon.co.uk; if I do "get done" for VAT it'll be for the difference of 3%... round €8.


  • #5
    brianorb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 93 ✭✭brianorb


    Thanks for the quick replies; just to be clear it's from amazon.co.uk; if I do "get done" for VAT it'll be for the difference of 3%... round €8. I was worried that it might be shipped from Jersey or wherever, and I'd have to pay 23%.


  • #6
    lotas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 944 ✭✭✭lotas


    brianorb wrote: »
    Thanks for the quick replies; just to be clear it's from amazon.co.uk; if I do "get done" for VAT it'll be for the difference of 3%... round €8.

    If your ordering from the EU sites, you wont be charged any more than Amazon already charge you. If you are ordering from outside the UK (.com, .co.jp, etc) you will get a nice ransom letter from the revenue/an post telling you that they wont give you your package till you pay them... personally, i wanted to tell them i dont negotiate with terrorists, but their and my definition of terrorists are 2 different things...

    long and the short, you should not be charged (by Irish customs) if you buy from the EU sites.


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  • #7
    Nody
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    lotas wrote: »
    If your ordering from the EU sites, you wont be charged any more than Amazon already charge you. If you are ordering from outside the UK (.com, .co.jp, etc) you will get a nice ransom letter from the revenue/an post telling you that they wont give you your package till you pay them... personally, i wanted to tell them i dont negotiate with terrorists, but their and my definition of terrorists are 2 different things...
    Curse them for enforcing Irish law; curse them all!


  • #8
    lotas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 944 ✭✭✭lotas


    Nody wrote: »
    Curse them for enforcing Irish law; curse them all!

    Exactly.


  • #9
    brianorb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 93 ✭✭brianorb


    lotas wrote: »
    Exactly.

    History dictates that the probability of enforcement is inversely proportional to your height on the food chain of Irish life.


  • #10
    rubadub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,387 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    brianorb wrote: »
    Thanks for the quick replies; just to be clear it's from amazon.co.uk; if I do "get done" for VAT it'll be for the difference of 3%... round €8.
    You can just go to checkout and not go through with the order, it will show what you will have to pay. There was a firefox plugin which showed the Irish price on the amazon page.
    lotas wrote: »
    If your ordering from the EU sites, you wont be charged any more than Amazon already charge you.
    If a company does more than €35,000 worth of business to ireland per annum they are legally obliged to pay Irish VAT. The upside of this is that it does go to the Irish government.

    Some thinks on amazon may be zero vat and 23% irish vat, we do not have identical VAT rates/categories across the board.


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